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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Tunnel, it turns an ordinary crisis into tightly escalating Korean suspense, using a confined situation and increasingly fraught contact with authorities to expose institutional failures.
02
Why this pick
This disaster thriller shares Tunnel’s anxious rescue-clock momentum, human-scale peril, and attention to the difficult decisions made by people trying to reach those trapped.
03
Why this pick
It offers a more buoyant variation on Tunnel’s survival tension: an everyday person improvises under pressure while civic systems struggle to contain a large-scale emergency.
04
Why this pick
Beneath its creature premise, it has Tunnel’s blend of urgent family-centered peril, darkly comic bureaucracy, and anger at public institutions failing vulnerable people.
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Why this pick
A stripped-down survival thriller driven by phone calls, it recreates Tunnel’s claustrophobic tension and the emotional stakes of trying to help someone from a frustrating distance.
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01 / THE STORY
Lee Jung-soo (Ha Jung-woo) is driving home for his daughter's birthday. While driving through a tunnel through a mountain, the tunnel collapses. When Lee Jung-Soo regains consciousness, he finds himself trapped inside his car, which is buried under tons of concrete and debris. All he has inside the car are his cellphone, two bottles of water, and his daughter's birthday cake. He forms a kind of special bond with the head of the rescue team, Dae-kyung, who teaches him how to survive in the tunnel.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lee Jung-Soo
Dae-Kyung
Se-Hyun
Chief Choi
Captain Kang
Government aide
Mi-na
Minister
